Crafts – Page 6 – Necromantic

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Jessica Harrison’s “Breaking” Series

In this series of ceramic sculptures, artist Jessica Harrison undermines and perverts the kitschy sentimentality of porcelain figurines by “breaking” them, casting a macabre twist on the familiar decorative art form. 19th-century ladies with vacantly blithe expressions hold their own severed, gory-edged head in their lap, gaily dangle their bloody eyeballs above them, and with fleshless, skeletal face recline daintily on a chaise longue. I would love to have these doll-sculptures in my home, they are such clever miniature subversions of prim and happy porcelain figurines, having a dimension of interest that the traditional harmlessly sweet figurines never possess.

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Mandy Greer

Mandy Greer creates installations and pieces of fashion art portraying “mystically driven and darkly beautiful” worlds, the studied chaos of entanglements at once symbolic and material, and deals with motherhood, eroticism, human relations to nature, and mythology in her intricate works.

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“The Book of Soil” by Teagan White

This beautiful and intriguing piece of papercraft is The Book of Soil, an experimental book-/paper-making project from designer and illustrator Teagan White.

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Dolls by Lena and Katya Popovy

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Marina Bychkova’s Enchanted Dolls

Marina Bychkova makes the most beautiful ball-jointed dolls. They are incredibly detailed, costumed, and decorated with body art – exquisite porcelain creations evocative of the melancholy side of fairy tales.

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Edo-Period Pregnancy Dolls

These obstetrical dolls from 19th-century Edo (modern-day Tokyo) were used to educate midwives on the delivery of babies, as well as to entertain the public at sideshow carnivals known as misemono. Realistic and articulated, some of them even included models of the fetus in various stages of its development.

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Fine China Autopsy Art

{ Beccy Ridsel }